Cephus
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It doesn't matter if it's the average, people did live that long, so you can't complain that old people exist in period movies.
Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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drusselmeyer
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I didn't say exist did I? SMH
Nevermind. If this is any indicator, future audiences are hopeless. They deserve what comes next.
Nevermind. If this is any indicator, future audiences are hopeless. They deserve what comes next.
I would like to interject here.
And again, right here.
Carry on.
drusselmeyer
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Ben Affleck
drusselmeyer
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Hey, Little 12 Toes...
Coincidentally, we were just talking about jumping and catching in films... when Studio C comes out with this great video:
p51
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The whole, "They'll be fine" after something happens that would clearly kill or cripple the strongest person.
Two that really stand out is Martin Riggs at the end of "Lethal Weapon 2" when he's been beaten within an inch of his life, then riddled with bullets.
But the mother of these is Jaws at the end of "Moonraker", where Jaws and his female friend are in a detached portion of the space station, heading toward the surface of the earth with no way to stop it. James Bond blows that off and says they'll be fine. Nope, the compartment decompressed at some point before the pair were ripped to shreds while being cremated. I saw this movie as a kid and even then realized how silly it was.
Two that really stand out is Martin Riggs at the end of "Lethal Weapon 2" when he's been beaten within an inch of his life, then riddled with bullets.
But the mother of these is Jaws at the end of "Moonraker", where Jaws and his female friend are in a detached portion of the space station, heading toward the surface of the earth with no way to stop it. James Bond blows that off and says they'll be fine. Nope, the compartment decompressed at some point before the pair were ripped to shreds while being cremated. I saw this movie as a kid and even then realized how silly it was.
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Riceball
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The main factor in low average life expectancy in the distant past has always been infant mortality. Everything else does play a factor but they don't skew the average the same way that infant mortality did. We still have war, famines, natural disasters, & nasty diseases but what has changed in the modern age is that children are far less likely to die young, and that has brought the life expectancy average up.
Too Much Garlic
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One pet peeve of mine is when movies show nighttime in a clean pristine image, darkened, with a blue filter instead of just plain grey. Loss of light usually means loss of color and lots of grain.
The Goon
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Okay, seriously, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!? How can ANYONE find stupid shtick like this funny?
The blue is easily overdone but it's correct in moderation.
The grain of real night shooting, I could go without that. It's just annoying when it's heavy.
If you ever get out in a rural area and pay attention to how the world looks in moonlight, it's interesting. It really has a lot of the traits of day-for-night darkened film. The moonlight causes glare/glint off shiny things. There are shadows. Etc.
Outdoor dark night scenes . . . the filmmakers can't win. If they make it dark enough to be anywhere near accurate then it's hard to see what's going on. It has to be "wrong" to some extent just to keep the movie watchable.
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It's funny, I read that last paragraph as "Dark Knight", and it still works.
It warrants a repeat: Anyone who gets thrown across a room and strikes a post/beam/column/wall, and then crumples down onto the floor... only to "catch their breath" and get up to rejoin the fight a moment later, is pure bollocks. A non-enhanced human, even wearing body armor, that gets thrown with force into a solid structure MAY be able to get back up on their feet, but rejoining the fight (with any usefulness) ain't gonna' happen.
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I think it depends and also whether the person throwing has super powers. When I was 16, at Tae Kwon Do practice, did a running flying jump side kick and kicked my friend into the drywall (his butt went into the adjoining business on the other side). He was holding a pad, but he just peeled himself out of the wall and was fine. I didn't want to see him hurt, but was disappointed by the lack of damage. I'm still going with the pad absorbing the blow. 
Dry wall is one of the most wonderful crush zones any flying ninja could hope for, so there is your saving grace. Had the wall not given way, damage would be unavoidable to the body.I think it depends and also whether the person throwing has super powers. When I was 16, at Tae Kwon Do practice, did a running flying jump side kick and kicked my friend into the drywall (his butt went into the adjoining business on the other side). He was holding a pad, but he just peeled himself out of the wall and was fine. I didn't want to see him hurt, but was disappointed by the lack of damage. I'm still going with the pad absorbing the blow.
In HS/college I did my share of full-contact sports. Getting knocked hard can leave you staggering around like a drunk for a few seconds afterwards. That's with young prime health + wearing pads so you don't have any specific injury.
If you get hit really hard they will have to stop the play and help you off the field. It might not be a concussion (or it might) but your whole body gets sort of "concussed" if the hit is hard enough.
Sometimes people say "I got the wind knocked out of me" because of a specific hit to the solar plexus that temporarily disrupts your breathing (if that happens to you, you won't ever forget it). But other times people say that because their body is just rattled and they need a few seconds/minutes to reboot.
As you get older the incapacitation period gets longer. Now in middle age, after a hard hit it might take me a minute or more before I'm ready to re-engage with the activity. Again, that's without any specific injuiry.
If you get hit really hard they will have to stop the play and help you off the field. It might not be a concussion (or it might) but your whole body gets sort of "concussed" if the hit is hard enough.
Sometimes people say "I got the wind knocked out of me" because of a specific hit to the solar plexus that temporarily disrupts your breathing (if that happens to you, you won't ever forget it). But other times people say that because their body is just rattled and they need a few seconds/minutes to reboot.
As you get older the incapacitation period gets longer. Now in middle age, after a hard hit it might take me a minute or more before I'm ready to re-engage with the activity. Again, that's without any specific injuiry.
I think it depends and also whether the person throwing has super powers. When I was 16, at Tae Kwon Do practice, did a running flying jump side kick and kicked my friend into the drywall (his butt went into the adjoining business on the other side). He was holding a pad, but he just peeled himself out of the wall and was fine. I didn't want to see him hurt, but was disappointed by the lack of damage. I'm still going with the pad absorbing the blow.
BTW... nice kick!!
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